HRUŠKOVITÉ ZÁVESKY V GERMÁNSKOM PROSTREDÍ DOBY RÍMSKEJ NA SLOVENSKU

The main aim of an article is to focus on the presentation of pear-shaped pendants found in the barbarian environment, specifically in the area of Slovakia during the Roman Period. Most essential for this work was an article of A. von Müller from 1956. It provides a typological classification according to which the finds from Slovakia were sorted. We can see the origins of the younger pear-shaped pendants in the older ball shape. Development of pendants is observable not only in the prolonging of a body shape but also in the surface decoration. Younger types represents the master works of an artisans through the delicate motifs created with thin metal wires and granulation. Archaeological and anthropological analyses points to its belonging to the female ornaments of a body. These small pieces of jewellery, made out of precious metals, were in Slovak territory found mostly in the urn graves. For the reason, that some of these finds carry traces after burning, we can expect, that they are belongings of the deceased. Most of them belongs to the B2/C1 stage. Many analogies to finds from Slovak sites are coming from Germanic burial grounds of Roman Period in today’s Poland, which indicates its origin in this area. Pear-shaped pendants were most likely brought to Slovak territory in the Roman Period by people of Przeworsk culture.